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Fire response prompts manual power shutdown at Bayer buildingEvansville IN

audio iconFire & Arson
Near Vogel Rd, Evansville, IN 47715

Fire department responded to a fire at the Bayer/M.H building on Vogel Rd. Command directed manual power shutdowns inside the building and coordinated with CenterPoint to cut electricity at a pole in front of the ISP building on highway 41 to ensure safety during the incident.

Audio|Source: Vanderburgh County Police, Fire, and EMS
04:12
Transcript:
00:00
Item 3, 5 out of 1.
00:04
Go ahead.
00:06
Can you follow us, center point, and let us know whenever the power's been killed.
00:13
Yeah, I want that one captain from command.
00:22
Sent one from command.
00:28
Good.
00:30
I need you to manually shut off the power to Bayer.
00:36
Repeat that.
00:38
I need you to manually shut off all electricity to Bayer inside the building.
00:43
Player.
00:47
Engine 3 from command.
00:55
Agent 3, I want you to shut down power to M.H inside.
01:01
Clear.
01:06
4-iron 5-1 arriving, rush to meet.
01:10
Anything there?
01:15
Good for item, typeline.
01:20
There.
01:25
Battalion four or five out of one? I advise the ISP posts.
01:33
They had residual smoke in there or no?
01:35
No smoke in ISP, just watching lights.
01:41
I'm Claire, are you good with the power staying on in that building? Or do you want someone to go up there and kill the power too?
01:47
Yes, I would like ISP to give the power shut off.
01:52
Clear. Five item three, five item one.
01:56
Go ahead.
01:59
While you're up there, can you go out of the ISP post and see if you can find main breakers and show them off?
02:06
Affirmative.
02:11
David 806
02:14
David 806 David 806
02:17
Can you please print the ring cartagel?
02:24
Engine 3 3
02:28
Power is off
02:33
Clear, power's off at NIH.
02:40
Direct, 210.
02:45
0.
02:46
137 minutes.
02:49
3056 East Baseline, Cicris, Johnston for a vehicle check. NPA's 45 minutes.
02:55
30,
02:56
56 East Baseline.
03:00
Clearing, route.
03:06
8-20 bicycle stop.
03:09
William, teacher, Jerome.
03:11
We have male and just east of Fulton, the black female, white male.
03:16
Clerk.
03:21
The one from command to check your status.
03:25
Of course, we're still investigating.
03:28
Every square inch of this building has been searched. So I'm able to find the exact calls yet.
03:33
Okay.
03:36
How's the power coming?
03:40
Power secured as much as we can. We have one locked cabinet that we can't access.
03:45
We still have a couple lights on a security lights.
03:48
Okay, I'm clear.
03:50
I'm clear. I'm four out of three.
03:56
I'm here with CenterPoint. We've identified the problem here at the pole working on to get the power shut off.
04:03
Cancelor, where's like to, what poll is it?
04:07
It's in front of ISP on 41.

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Location mentioned:
Near Vogel Rd, Evansville, IN 47715
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Incident Timeline

  1. Smoke and Haze Investigation
  2. Emergency Response and Investigation
  3. Power Outage and Additional Calls
  4. Initial Report of Wires Down and Transformer Explosion

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